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Fine Jewelry Online Retailer Blue Nile Launches Redesigned Website

FAD — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0100

One of the world’s leading online retailers of diamonds and fine jewelry, Blue Nile, has announced the launch of a redesigned Blue Nile website (www.bluenile.com). The diamond jewelry online retailer stated that the revamped website offers new innovative features, enhanced product visualization, larger images, expanded product detail, and new ways to view products. Blue Nile CEO [...]

One of the world’s leading online retailers of diamonds and fine jewelry, Blue Nile, has an...

August DTC sale biggest so far this year, RBC

FAD — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0100

De Beers held its biggest sale so far this year in August as diamond prices improved, RBC Capital Markets said, citing cutters and polishers it didn’t identify, Bloomberg reported. De Beers probably sold diamonds worth as much as $475 million at its seventh sale, analyst Des Kilalea said in a note to clients dated yesterday. That brings [...]

De Beers held its biggest sale so far this year in August as diamond prices improved, RBC Capital Markets said, citing cutters and polishers...

Fine Watch Sales Decline Moderates

FAD — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Jewelry Biz-News quotes new data from LGI Network, a provider of marketing and sales information to luxury goods retailers, manufacturers and distributors, according to which luxury watch sales for July 2009 declined in comparison to the same month the previous year. According to the data, the overall market for fine watches declined by 20% on a [...]

Jewelry Biz-News quotes new data from LGI Network, a provider of marketing and sales information to luxury goods retailers, manufacturers...

Poet smuggled Commie diamonds in chocolates

FAD — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0100

A BRITISH writer brought diamonds from Russia into the UK disguised in a box of chocolate creams to help fund communist propaganda after World War One, secret files show. Britain’s national security agency, the MI5, found that poet Francis Meynell had been channelling Russian funds into Britain to support his left-wing Daily Herald newspaper where he [...]

A BRITISH writer brought diamonds from Russia into the UK disguised in a box of chocolate creams to help fund communist propag...

Uncut tanzanite hits bottom price in August

FAD — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:00:00 +0100

The local price of rough tanzanite has recently plunged by nearly 50 percent to its lowest price in history, reported The Guardian. The per-gram uncut price has slipped from US$350 in June this year to US$180 in August. “This is the lowest price recorded in the history of tanzanite business,” gemstone broker Adam Leiyani was quoted [...]

The local price of rough tanzanite has recently plunged by nearly 50 percent to its lowest price in history, reported The Guardian.

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Man Finds His Wedding Ring At The Bottom Of A Harbor

FAD — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:00:00 +0100

How far would you go for love? For a New Zealand local the answer was ‘very far’. After dropping his wedding ring to the bottom of Wellington Harbor, Aleki Taumoepeau, swore to his new bride that he would retrieve the sunken treasure… that was 16 months ago. The NIWA ecologist was scouring the harbor for invasive plant species last March when the ring slipped from his finger. He quickly threw an anchor overboard in an attempt to mark the loose whereabouts of the band. He swore to his wife of th...

Diamonds: The Latest in Treating Infections

FAD — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Chicago, IL – Northwestern University scientist Dean Ho recently discovered that using nanoscale diamonds can help heal wounds much faster. Dr. Ho and his team found that diamonds tend to attract insulin, best known for helping to regulate blood sugar. Insulin has also been found to speed up the healing process and prevent infections from growing at wound sites.

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Diamond Giant Alrosa Plans $2 Billion in Diamond Sales in 2009

FAD — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Diamond Giant Alrosa intends to sell $2 billion worth of diamonds in 2009, according to the new president of Russia’s biggest diamond producer, Fyodor Andryev. Andreyev, who replaced former Alrosa CEO Sergei Vybornov earlier this month, stated that the diamond company intends to fulfill its $2 billion plan for diamond sales in 2009, and that the [...]

Diamond Giant Alrosa intends to sell $2 billion worth of diamonds in 2009, according to the new president of Russia’s biggest...

Botswana: De Beers in 99 Percent Loss As Diamonds Lose Their Glitter

FAD — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

The world’s largest diamond producer, De Beers, has reported a 99-percent drop in net profits for the first half of 2009 to just $3 million after demand for luxury goods was hard hit by the global recession. The diamond giant, which has a 50/50 partnership with Government in Debswana, made $316 million in the same period [...]

The world’s largest diamond producer, De Beers, has reported a 99-percent drop in net profits for the first half of 2009 to just $3 million after dema...

More Accolades For Excel Diamonds Tiffany Replica Engagement Rings!

FAD — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Excel Diamonds.com has consistently garnered rave reviews for manufacturing the highest quality Tiffany inspired engagement ring settings anywhere. Most recently, a customer who purchased the ExcelDiamonds/SuperbCert Tiffany Replica Ring, posted the following testimonial (with photos included!!) to a popular Diamond Information Website: ---------------------------------------------------------- I recently purchaesed an engagement ring from Excel Diamonds and couldn't imagine a better dia...

You Never Saw An Engagement Ring Like This One!

FAD — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

I love this gorgeous Designer Engagement Ring By Rochelle!

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Cynthia Nixon Getting Married.

FAD — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon is set to marry girlfriend of six years, education activist Christine Marinoni. Cynthia has an engagement ring but also reveals her fiancee chose not to have one: “[Christine] did not get a ring. She will have a wedding ring but she does not want an engagement ring.”

De Beers Diamond Sales Rise; Mining Will Resume in Botswana

FAD — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0100

De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer, said sales are climbing this year and mines in Botswana probably will resume production next week. “Sales have been steadily increasing since the end of last year,” spokeswoman Lynette Gould said in an e-mailed statement dated yesterday. Cash flow was positive in March, and the Johannesburg-based company is “optimistic” [...]

De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer, said sales are climbing this year and...

Recession Hits the Diamond Industry

FAD — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0100

The diamond industry does not exist in a bubble. This was proven when the famed jewelry store Tiffany in New York City lowered their diamond prices.

According to a New York Times report, even De Beers, which managed to maintain the high prices of diamond jewelry by restricting its supply, is feeling the economic crunch. Last year. The powerful diamond supply asked its workers in Botswana to have an extended Christmas vacation. This only means that there is more supply than demand, which would...

Diamond Cut Grade: Discovering the Value of a Precious Gem

FAD — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Over the years, many methods, systems, and apparatus have sprouted in the market, all of them with one goal: to create a universal way of grading diamond cuts. There are generally three laboratories which experts respect in terms of grading diamonds: the America Gem Society (AGSL), European Gemological Laboratory (EGL) and the Gemological Institute of America (or GIA). These respected institution spent several years and a considerable amount of money to create credible systems to note the val...

The Elegant Symbol: Diamonds in Popular Culture and Everyday Life

FAD — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Diamonds are known to be the hardest known mineral in the world. It is also a noted symbol of elegance, class, and beauty. This isn't exactly surprising, since diamonds were many things to many cultures several centuries ago. In different cultures and in different countries, diamonds meant many things-they were considered holy, divine, in possession of mystic powers. Just the same, diamonds represent something else today. Let's take a look at how diamonds were viewed before, and how they are con...

Blue Nile Profits Sink Like A Rock -53%

FAD — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Blue Nile Inc (NILE) today reported a lower quarterly profit that missed expectations as sales fell, and said the economic downturn prevented it from giving a financial outlook, sending its shares down 10.8 percent in after hours trading. Blue Nile's net profit fell to $3.5 million, or 24 cents a share, in the fou...